Fetch

Fetch (fetch)
v. t.	(fch; 224)
Fetch
[imp. ** p. p.* Fetched 2] p. pr. ** vb. n.. Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian] or cf. facian* to wish to get, OFries. faka to

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton.

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay.

To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

Fetching men again when they swoon. Bacon.

To reduce; to throw.

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South.

To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.

I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak.

He fetches his blow quick and sure. South.

To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched
The siren's isle. Chapman.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes.

To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. -- To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To fetch headway or sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern. -- To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]" Addison. -- To fetch up. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please." L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.

fetch

fetch (fetch)
v. i.
fetch

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Totten.

To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.

Fetch

Fetch (fetch)
n.
Fetch

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.

The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. Dickens.

Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

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